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  2. 1917 (2019 film) - Wikipedia

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    1917 is a 2019 British war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who co-wrote it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.Partially inspired by stories told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather Alfred about his service during World War I, [7] the film takes place after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich, and follows two British soldiers, Will Schofield (George MacKay ...

  3. List of World War I films - Wikipedia

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    Remake of Les Croix de bois, trench warfare on the Western Front D 1937 France Grand Illusion: La Grande Illusion: Jean Renoir: Two French POWs plot their escape D 1937 France Mademoiselle Docteur: Salonique, nid d'espions: G. W. Pabst: During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a ...

  4. Trench warfare - Wikipedia

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    The war would be won by the side that was able to commit the last reserves to the Western Front. Trench warfare prevailed on the Western Front until the Germans launched their Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. [25] Trench warfare also took place on other fronts, including in Italy and at Gallipoli. Armies were also limited by logistics.

  5. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film) - Wikipedia

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    Their romantic view of the war is shattered by the realities of trench warfare on the Western Front, and Ludwig is killed by artillery on the first night. On November 7, 1918, German State Secretary Matthias Erzberger, weary of mounting losses, meets with German High Command to persuade them to begin armistice talks with the Allied powers.

  6. Trench raiding - Wikipedia

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    Trench raiding was a feature of trench warfare which developed during World War I. It was the practice of making small scale night-time surprise attacks on enemy positions. It was the practice of making small scale night-time surprise attacks on enemy positions.

  7. Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany) - Wikipedia

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    Ever since the introduction of breechloaders, there had been a growing realization that the days of close-order infantry assault were coming to an end. For a time, up to the turn of the 19th century, armies tried to circumvent the problem by moving into range in dispersed formations and charging only the last metres, as the French did in the Second Italian War of Independence (1859), the ...

  8. Western Front tactics, 1917 - Wikipedia

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    In 1917, during the First World War, the armies on the Western Front continued to change their fighting methods, due to the consequences of increased firepower, more automatic weapons, decentralisation of authority and the integration of specialised branches, equipment and techniques into the traditional structures of infantry, artillery and cavalry.

  9. Gallipoli campaign - Wikipedia

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    Gallipoli campaign; Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of the First World War: A collection of photographs from the campaign. From top and left to right: Ottoman commanders including Mustafa Kemal (fourth from left); Entente warships; V Beach from the deck of SS River Clyde; Ottoman soldiers in a trench; and Entente positions